SUBFAMILY III. — ORTHOTYLIN^E. 865 



behind middle. Tip of abdomen reaching apex of cuneus. Length, 

 5 — 5.5 mm. 



White Plains, N. Y., June 29 (Olsen) . Ranges from Quebec 

 and New England west to New York. Host plant, willow. 



949 ( — ). Orthotylus neglectus Knight, 1923, 515. 



Male — Elongate, subparallel. Fuscous-black, sparsely clothed with 

 very fine prostrate yellowish hairs; narrow side margins of pronotum, 

 cuneus, embolium, outer margin of basal two-thirds of corium, legs, beak 

 and middle of under surface greenish-yellow; sides of under surface 

 shining brown ; tips of beak and tarsi fuscous. Joint 1 of antennae red- 

 dish-brown, nearly as long as head ; 2 greenish-yellow, more than three 

 times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 tinged with fuscous, united three-fourths the 

 length of 2. Pronotum with sides feebly but visibly sinuate; calli broad 

 and low, united in front, separated by a median depression behind; disk 

 transversely rugose. Elytra long, narrow, with sides parallel, but 

 slightly surpassing tip of abdomen. Female — More robust and more 

 broadly pale, the pronotum and scutellum with median line pale. Length, 

 5.2—5.8 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., June 12 ; beaten from black willow, Salix 

 nigra Marsh. Port Credit, Ontario, July 1 (Olsen). Known 

 heretofore from Nova Scotia, New England and New York. 

 Very close to dorsalis and may prove to be only a color variety 

 of that species. 



XL Noctuocoris Knight, 1923, 523. 



Differs from Orthotylus mainly by the characters given in 

 generic key. Upper surface clothed with appressed scale-like 

 hairs intermixed with more erect slender ones ; head distinctly 

 oblique, female, much less so, male ; pronotum moderately slop- 

 ing, almost flat, sides nearly straight, calli convex, delimited 

 behind by an impressed line which merges with an impression 

 between them ; ventrals 1 — 6 each with an impressed glabrous 

 spot on sides near spiracles ; legs long, suggesting Phytocoris, 

 but femora not distinctly broader at base. 



950 (1178%). Noctuocoris fumidus (Van Duzee), 1916b, 127. 



Elongate, subparallel, male, slightly larger and more robust, female. 

 Color a uniform fuscous-brown; head, apex of pronotum and base of 

 legs often tinged with rufous ; tip of scutellum pale ; membrane fuscous, 

 nerves of the small cell pale; front face of femora with an interrupted 

 fuscous line; upper margin and posterior face with a row of small dark 

 spots; sterna fuscous, sides of ventrals with a black stripe. Joint 1 of 

 antennae brown, as long as width of vertex; 2 brownish-yellow, fuscous 

 at tip, three times as long as 1 ; 3 and 4 fuscous, 3 three-fifths as long as 



